Backwoods
['bækwʊdz] or ['bæk'wʊdz]
Definition
(n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
Checked by Justin
Examples
- It's all very well to say I'm wrong to go into the Church; but those who say so might as well tell me to go into the backwoods. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was hot on the French social systems, and talked of going to the Backwoods to found a sort of Pythagorean community. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One described it as an ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Edited by Guthrie